Dinner in Taichung

For dinner, we went to this restaurant with really interesting architecture. The whole restaurant was made of stone and concrete made to look like it was built into a mountain. There were pools with fish and really odd art sculpture on the wall. Our hosts, Kevern and Jack (from Sou Le) explained that the owner and architect was a woman who was a little eccentric and liked to use materials from the place the building was constructed. Hence, the sidewalks were wood planks in concrete and the walkway coming into the restaurant was large, very uneven stones. Not something you'd see in the US because of the probability that somebody would sue when they slipped. A pic of the sinks in the restaraunt is above; the urinals looked about the same (but I'll spare you!). The pic of the toilet was blurry, so I didn't post it, but it was basically a porcelin hole in the floor, strange to see in this upscale restaurant, although they don't seem to cater to English speakers as nothing was written in English.

After dinner we went for a walk in the night market, with tons of people walking the street and stores and vendors selling food (mostly), clothing, watches, etc.

One interesting thing being sold are seen in the two pics here; Bloody Rice Cake! It looked like blood sausage, but made into a cake instead of a sausage.

Tomorrow we start work, training at our distributor's office and lab in Taichung, then visiting some customers on Tuesday before going to Guangzhou, China.


Ciao.